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Olympics Front Sport by Sport Gallery History Nagano Countries Eric Heiden of the United States wins five gold medals in speedskating. As the Winter Games reconvened for the second time in Lake Placid, N.Y., relations between East and West were in a deep freeze, after the December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets. The United States felt it had to check Soviet Russian aggressiveness ...
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